Punjab India Complete Guide 2026: Golden Temple, Wagah Border, Chandigarh and Khalsa Heartland
Browse more guides: India travel | Asia destinations Punjab India Complete Guide 2026: Golden Temple, Wagah Border, Chandigarh and Khalsa Heartland TL;DR Punjab is the spiritual home of Sikhism, the breadbasket of north India, and a state where 28 million people speak Punjabi across 50,362 square kilometres of canal-fed plains. I have travelled this state on three separate trips since 2022, and every visit confirms the same thing: Punjab rewards visitors who slow down and pay attention. The Golden Temple in Amritsar is the most moving piece of religious architecture I have seen in India, with 750 kilograms of gold sheathing the upper storeys and a community kitchen that serves a free meal to roughly 100,000 pilgrims every single day. The Wagah-Attari border ceremony at 5pm is loud, choreographed, and memorable. Chandigarh, the planned capital designed by Le Corbusier from 1951 and inaugurated in 1953, holds a UNESCO inscription from 2016 as part of the architect's transnationa...